A-type star · white star
19 CVn
19 CVn is a white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 242 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,179 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 242 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5004 · HD 115271 · HIP 64692
8,179 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
23.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
242 years
at light speed from Earth
1.42×
as hot as the Sun
23.51×
the Sun's light output
1.42
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.